Superb light and colors... a great composition Tara!

polarising filter ?

My only suggestion, Tara, is to have the other person place themselv in a way to block the sun at that angle and then readjust the settings on your camera to compensate for the loss of light. I love this though. The reflections are good but the presentation is marvelous.

It's glaringly obvious that you should have done an HDR for this. But that won't fix what you have. It looks like the bright areas are totally blown out, so there is no information there to recover. Maybe someone with more experience than I have can give you better advice on avoiding this, but I would say "don't do that." As PJ said, either block the light or shoot away from it. Nice picture, though; it's very colorful. I'm with you on the seaweed.

I quite like the flare in this, but if you wanted to take it out then a polarizing filter (as awjay says, above) is best. In photoshop you could try duplicating the layer and then select "multiply" from the blending options, and then masking out everything except the flare, although this may not work brilliantly with bright white flares. But all that said, I really like this capture Tara! Is that green tea in the cup?

Excellent shot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

to me the glare adds to the atmosphere of this....... and I love salads but seaweed salad is new to me..

Super image. I feel really silly offering my 2 pennysworth, but I would clone out the glare using the marble as the source, it's what I do with bits of sky and shiny leaves behind my camelias. I don't yet know how to do it a in any programme but Corel photo. I had seaweed once all crunchy and tasty, it was OK but I didn't write home about it!

Like green beans for me just do not like them Hi Tara this sure brightened me morning wonderful capture full of surprise sweet smile to you warm hug, Linda

i would go with Rock's advice...try more than one blending mode,though...also a luminosity captured selection that has been made into a layer then set to multiply.....alt+ctrl+tilde for the luminosity layer...ctrl+J to make the layer...then experiment....oh,still a great shot and I hope you didn't pay too much for that salad!

I took a copy and played around trying to clone it out Tara, but I gave up after half an hour, the top of the cup was the hardest part and I couldn't get rid of it all either. Apart from the glare it is a great image, I like very much how the cup and dish are reflected in the marble. All I can suggest is that you go back and try again, you might get a window seat then and have the light behind you instead of like this. You could crop out the cup and just have the dish, not ideal I know but.... Hard work. Bravo!!!!!

A nice healthy lunch. I actually like the glare, I think it adds to the mood nicely. Nice shot!

Well Tara, shows how much I know coz I thought it had a very professional look to it like staight out of a Home Decor Magazine. But I've read the comments and hopefully absorbed the helpful advice myself.

A wonderful capture Tara. I am sorry I have read the advice and cannot add more to it. I like this shot as it is ! Hugs. Diane.

OH yes I like very much this shot too and I dont mind the glare. If you look at the reflection on the salad bowle, you can se from where the light comes and then it is only naturally, that the glare is there. To remove it now?? hmmm I dont think it can be done without damage. Even a cloning wont work nicely I believe. I like it exactly as it is.

I have nothing to add in the area of advice, but you know, I find this shot remarkable, and the reflection is just the thing that got my attention in the first place. And now that I have looked at it for a while, I really like the way the white cup "disappears" in the glare..

I don't have a problem with the glare I don't think I would really have payed that much attention to it if you hadn't of drawn my eye to it lol. My eyes focused more on the wonderful bowl of salad and reflections. Although I have used dryed seaweed in salads before I've never had a seaweed salad. Looks interesting. And thank you Tara for the fav:0)

I don't know... to me, this image looks quite natural the way it is... very nice work!

this meal is definitely not my cup of tea tara :o)..i think there are those that like and those that dont (the glare that is) and i am with the like .it seems it can be done with software after a lot of hard work but i would definitely say polariser if the need arises again .a good one is not cheap but worth its weight in gold :o)..this composition and image is excellent and i also like the way the cup disappears mick

I like the glare personally. Don't think I would care for that salad, but the tea looks delicious. Love the reflections also. Wonderful capture.

lovely darlin, hope you saved me some to drink in the pot hehe! and.... that glare is a nuisance, however still like the photo indeed.

Yes, seaweed is best left in the sea. I like the glare, it's more like an extra sparkle and shine!!

i would have cloned it out if possible or perhaps placed the menu there to block it...love the bowl reflection, very cool effect. I'm with you on the seaweed...yuk!

nice picture:)

Super light and colors.Wonderful capture.

My eyes were drawn to the bowl, marble and reflection. I was thinking what glare? lol. Then I looked again, and said "oh that." It goes with the whole in my opinion. And Mmmm, is that green tea? I love green tea. I drink it everyday, iced. Great shot! (I'll pass on the salad).

next time have someone stand between the sun and table. You could try to clone itout

Considering the lighting difficulties, fine effects achieved in this splendid capture of a most sublime lunch. Of course, I would be hungry again in about 10 minutes after consuming such limited fare. I'm not sure, but I believe seaweed is abundant in iodine. The Sargasso Sea east of Florida is just loaded with seaweed.

great capture...do love the reflection.great work

In a short fan correspondence with a photojournalist from a major US paper, she wrote: "One of my celebrated photos had a sun in it that drove me batty. I shot [the shot] 20 times, but couldn't get rid of the sun, and in journalism you're really not supposed to manipulate these things. So I submitted it, and got accolades. And I still hate that sun, I've never gotten used to it..." The glare here isn't un-beautiful: It just isn't the shot you wanted. But the salad bowl is luminous, with a wonderful ghost in the table (looks like a holder), and the salad has simple perfect highlights. It's typical Japanese food preparation---even in fast food places---to put a mass in the center and top it off with a light 'accents' on top; it's just their way with balance, and you got it: I mean it's all there. It's a really shimmering capture! And if the sun comes in and shows off in front of everyone, well whaddya expect from the sun, it's a royal pain...(and I like seaweed, so I guess that cancels out my comment...sorry...)